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WHAT IS MEANT BY TERMINAL DECLINE

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DECLINING IN MENTAL FUNCTIONING ACCELERATES A FEW YEARS BEFORE DEATH

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FORMS OF ASSISTED DYING

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PASSIVE ASSISTED DYING AND ACTIVE ASSISTED DYING

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LOSS OF SPOUSE LONG TERM AFFECTS

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BROKEN HEART SYNDROME, WIDOW IMMUNE SYSTEM IS SUPPRESSED AFTER DEATH BUT RETURNS TO NORMAL AFTER A YEAR

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KUBLER ROSS STAGES

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DENIAL, ANGER, BARGAINING, DEPRESSION, ACCEPTANCE

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WE GROW OLDER AND FEAR WHICH ASPECTS ON DEATH

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LONELINESS, FAILING TO COMPLETE LIFE WORK,

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ILLUSION OF INVULNERABILITY

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IN YOUNGER ADULT PREVENTS INTENSE FEAR OF DEATH AND IN MIDDLE AGE BEGIN TO BELIEVE

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what do children believe about death?

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death can be reversed, with magic, prayer, wishful thinking

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hospice care, approach to dying

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  • a holistic approach to care for the terminally ill that emphasizes individual and family control
  • death should be viewed as normal
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clincal death

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heart stops pumping when breathing has stopped, no brain function,

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brain death

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state when a person no longer has reflexes or any responses,

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social death

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when person dying is being treated like a corpse by others

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retirement and moving- Charles Longing

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amenity move- moving away from kids or somewhere warm

compensatory move- closer to family

institutional migration- to an insitiuation

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sibling role as we grow up

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relationships become more significant in late adulthood, become more important in late adulthood

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elder abuse, factors increasing it

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extreme conflict and strain between an elder and someone in a trusting relationship

factors- mental illness, substance abuse

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religious coping, gender differences

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the tendency to turn to religious beliefs and institutions for support in times of difficulty

  • women- make more use of religious coping
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social support, elderly component

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meaningful social roles are essential to life satisfaction

seniors with freq visitor are happier

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Rowe and kahn define successful aging

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three components of successful aging; good physical health, retention of cognitive abilities, and continuing engagement.

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activity theory vs disengagement theory

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activities theory- normal and health for older adults to try to remain as active as possible for as long

disengagement theory- theory that it is normal and healthy for older adults to scale down their social lives

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skinkage of like

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less ppl to talk too

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increased individuality

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in the riles and relationship that remain, the older individual is

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acceptance of these changes

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healthy older adult disengage from roles and relationship

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ego integrity, erikson

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ego integrity- the feeling that one’s life has been worthwhile

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what happened to our sleep patterns

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30% experience insomnia

adults older than age 65 typically wake up more

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epigenetic clock sigificance

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cells only live so we die

based on dna level

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balters has to say about wisdom
central to wisdom is related to solving practice life problems, blends with values and meaning systems, knowledge-based
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frail elderly
seniors whose physical and mental impairments are so extensive that they cannot care for themselves
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presbycusis, older adults experiencing this tye of loss may be seen as what
prebycusis: normal loss of hearing with aging, especially of high frequency tones
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older individuals experience a general "slowing down"
- behavioural change of age-related physical changes, - district loss at the neuronal level clearly contributes substantially
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instrumental and daily living acttivities
more complex than daily living task such as doing housework, cooking, managing money
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basic activities of daily living
self help task such as bathing, dressing, and using the toliet
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role conflict and role strain
Two or more riles are at least partially incompatible, when her qualities or skills do not met the demands
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Erickson generativity becomes a form/expression of resilience for indigenous elder
generatively can be viewed as a form of resilience in the face of adversity for indigenous elders
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involuntary career changes
are people who are in transition because of external reason
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voluntary career changes
leave one career to purse another
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caregiver burden
cumulative affects of caring for an elderly or disabled person
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identify and distinguish grandparents
involved- The least common pattern is when grandparents are directly involved remote- when grandparents don't see their grandchildren companionate relationship- the most common pattern is when grandparents have frequent contact and warm interactions with grandchildren
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significance of the interstitum
transport system that carries fluids and molecules within and between tissue
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thought associated with creative thinking
divergent thinking- a person who uses divergent thinking can provide multiple solutions
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semantic memory
recollection of general knowledge, fcats and word meanings
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episodic memory
recollections of personal events
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dennys model of exerised and unexercised skills
not only physical exercise, but also mental exercise beahoural taks and skill have a lower peak level performance
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AUD
alcohol use disorder: physical and pyschological dependence on alcohol
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hearing problem due to age announce themself
inability to hear sounds of high and very low frequencies
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cognitive and emotional effects perimenopause
transtion period called perimenopause, starts at age 40
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changes occur in middle adult
pre operational stage to concrete operational stage construct schemes that enable childern to think logically about objects
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roisman 5 domian
academic, friendship, conduct, work, romantic
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dopamine and oxytocin
dopamine: fell good hormone oxytocin: love and comfort
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women's work experiences vary from that of man's across sdulthood
men and woman gap counters are decreasing woman could only be teachers, nursing, social work, sale
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friends-gender differences
men have less disclosure and intmacy the girl friendships
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childern and marital satisfaction
martial satisfaction tends to deline after birth satisfaction is regained after all childern move out
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fighting styles- validating couples, volatile, avoidant
validating: disagreements rarelyescalate, mutal respect volatile: dont listen, diagree, more positive then negitive avoidant: minimizers conflict, agree to disagree hostile, engaged: have hot arguments, balences with humour and affection, negitive hostie, detached; lack affection and support, negitive
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atractive
men and woman mate perferences changed as women gain power men: prefer attractive younger woman women: higher status then them
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levinson life structure
a key concept in levinsons theory, pattern or design of a person life at a given time includes roles, relation, behaviour patterns
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HALE
health adusted life expectancy, estimated of life expectency at birth, is it the number of years a new born can live
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crystallized and fluid intelligence
crystallized: knowlegde and judgement acquired through education and experience fluid: aspect of intelligence that reflect fundamental biolgical process and not dependent on specific experiences
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two mental disorders associated with young adults
anxiety and mood disorders
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strategies successful employed to deal with/reduce/prevent intimate partner violence
physical acts or other behaviour intented to intimidate or harm an intimate partner as in couple who are dating, cohabiting, engaged or married
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vigeorous law enforcment
suggest that the stigma of arrest may force perpetrators of violence to face the reality that why have a serious problem
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how to improve life expectancy and reduce morbidity
no smoking, increased physical activity, healthy diet, alocohol, alcohol reduced stress
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top two bones in immune system
thymus gland bone marrow creates b cells and T cells
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significance of your V02Max
v02 max is measured of the bodys ability to take inh and transport oxygen to various body organ
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two sources of aging
primary aging- age related physical change that have biological basis and are unviersally secondary aging- changes due to social and environmental influences
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james marcia
offers that adolescent identity formation has two key part: a crsis and a commitment identity statuses
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gender role and high self-estem
gender role identity: gender related aspects of the psychological self
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Kohlberg core cstages moral reasoning
one;punishment two: individualism three: mutualinterpersonal four: social system and conscience five: social contract six: unreal ethical priniples
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gilligan, moral development/ orientation
argues that there were at least two distinct, moral orientations, each have their own centeral injunction
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childhood-onset conduct disorder
social and academic function of childern and youth is impaired by patterns of antisocial behaviour that include bullying, destruction of property, theft, deceitfulness and violence
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identify the benefits as well as potential
better school performance of 14 hours or less increased felings of competence an efficacy time management
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does freud identify as the core developmental task in middle childhood
develop friends an outside parents and social skills
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global self-evaluation refers to what
possess an unexpetly strong sense of self esteem with respect to aspacs of their personality
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characterize then distinguish between physical, relational and retaliatory aggression
physical- hurts others physically or poses a threat of such damage relational- agression aimed at damaging another person self-esteem or peer relationship retaliatory- agression to get back with someone who has hurt you
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cross-race effect refers to what
phenomenon in which individuals are more likely to remember faces of people of their own race than those people with different race
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indigenous child-rearing practices responsibillites of child care
permissive parenting style, they found no assicaition with negative outcome in indigenous childern
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function is served by the corpus-callosum
corpus-callosum, connects of the cerebral cortex grows during early childhood
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feed a child 2-6 yrs
food aversions, carry gene proflies sweat, fat, salty
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oral stage of development
freud, proper weaning without frusterationor over gratification
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attachment disorder
psychoanalytic theories, seriously impair an individuals capacity for forming social relationships
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infant intelligence
Bayley scales of infant and toddler development, measures many aspect of cognitive , language and motor development
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pragmatic marker
indicates feeling/ context inflection
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geoge Beaton and vitmin A
mortality rates can be reduced by 23% by supplying young childern living in at risk countries with vitmin A
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multiple births in canada may be largely attributed to what
more likley to have twins after 35 over 35 are more likley to have diffuclty being pregent
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folic acid- why emphasis during pregnancy
the potiential neg effect of folic occur during the early weeks vital to prenatal development
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Freuds most important theortical contribution to our understanding of behaviour
5 stages from brith to adolescent in each stage, need for physical pleasure is focused on dfferent parts of body
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identify the core idea behind
emphasizes that basic goodness of human beings, each individual has a unique potential and has an inborn drive for personal growth
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skinner-humanistic theory
development involves behaviour changes thate are shapes by reinforcement and punishment
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bandura- humanistic theory
people learn from models and what is learned depends on how they interpret the situation
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social clock vs biological clock what's the difference
social clock: set of age norms that defines a sequence of normal life experiences that is considered normal in a given culture and that all individuals in that culutre biological clock: remind them everyday that they aren't as young as they used to be
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factors may disrupt infant attachment relationships
trauma, emotional responsiveness, marital status , mentao health
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find support for the link between temperament traits and genetic in heritance
in twins studies
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sensation-seeking behaviour
teenagers appear to gave what many developments say is sensation seeking or desire to experience increased levels of arousal

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